Protan Color Blindness
Protanomaly and protanopia - color vision deficiencies caused by an altered or absent red (L) cone.
Protanomaly is referred to as "red-weakness", an apt description of this form of color deficiency. Any redness seen in a color by a normal observer is seen more weakly by the protanomalous viewer, both in terms of its "coloring power" (saturation, or depth of color) and its brightness.
Normal Color Vision
Protan Color Vision
Notice how the reds and oranges look darker and duller, shifting towards yellow-brown.
Red, orange, yellow, and yellow-green appear somewhat shifted in hue towards green, and all appear paler than they do to the normal observer. The redness component that a normal observer sees in a violet or lavender color is so weakened for the protanomalous observer that he may fail to detect it, and therefore sees only the blue component. Hence, to him the color that normals call "violet" may look only like another shade of blue.
Normal Color Vision
Protan Color Vision
Notice how the red, orange and green pencils look more alike.
Normal Color Vision
Protan Color Vision
Notice how the red paint looks darker and closer to the greens and browns.
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